Topband: Fwd: Re: Belize-VK/ZL possibilities

[Greg - ZL3IX]

Having noted that my answer to Iain's post has not appeared on the 
Reflector, I am trying again.

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Subject: 	Re: Topband: Belize-VK/ZL possibilities
Date: 	Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:58:31 +1300
From: 	Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix at inet.net.nz>
To: 	topband at contesting.com



Hi Iain,

I worked V31YN in Jan 2007. Is that QSO one of the two in Clublog?

No, I don't think it is a tricky path at all, being almost entirely over
the Pacific Ocean. Your problem will not be Tx, with an antenna over sea
water, but, unless you make a special effort with Rx, you may have a
problem hearing in a noisy tropical country like V3.

73, Greg, ZL3IX

On 2018-02-03 09:43 a.m., iain haywood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm off to Belize again for the commonwealth contest in March but 
> after the event I plan to make use of the pier over seawater for top 
> band and some 60M.
>
> An inverted-L over seawater is planned.
>
> On checking clublog it says there have been only TWO QSO's ever 
> between VK/ZL and V31 on 160M.
>
> Is this a tricky path ? I assume its because of high thunderstorm 
> noise in the tropics.
>
> What do think of my chances with 100W and CW & some FT8 (shock--horror!)
>
> Iain G4SGX
>
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